ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,508, issued on July 28, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Anomaly detection method, anomaly detection device, and recording medium" was invented by Denis Gudovskiy (San Ramon, Calif.), Shun Ishizaka (Tokyo) and Kazuki Kozuka (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anomaly detection method by which a computer performs anomaly detection includes: obtaining first feature data outputted through N (N is an integer not less than 1) convolutional layers of a convolutional neural network configured as an encoder when an image is inputted to the convolutional neural network; ob...